RT Journal Article
T1 Development of very-thick transparent GEMs with wavelength-shifting capability for noble element TPCs
A1 Kuźniak, Marcin
A1 González Díaz, Diego
A1 Amedo, Pablo
A1 Azevedo, Carlos
A1 Fernández Posada, David José
A1 Kuźwa, Maciej
A1 Leardini, Sara
A1 Leonhardt, A.
A1 Łęcki, Tomasz
A1 Manzanillas, Luis
A1 Muenstermann, Daniel
A1 Nieradka, Grzegorz
A1 Oliveira, Rui de
A1 Pollmann, T. R.
A1 Saá Hernández, Ángela
A1 Sworobowicz, Tadeusz
A1 Türkoğlu, Cenk
A1 Williams, S.
AB A new concept for the simultaneous detection of primary and secondary scintillation in time projection chambers is proposed. Its core element is a type of very-thick GEM structure supplied with transparent electrodes and machined from a polyethylene naphthalate plate, a natural wavelength shifter. Such a device has good prospects for scalability and, by virtue of its genuine optical properties, it can improve on the light collection efficiency, energy threshold and resolution of conventional micropattern gas detectors. This, together with the intrinsic radiopurity of its constituting elements, offers advantages for noble gas and liquid based time projection chambers, used for dark matter searches and neutrino experiments. Production, optical and electrical characterization, and first measurements performed with the new device are reported
PB Springer
YR 2021
FD 2021
LK http://hdl.handle.net/10347/26655
UL http://hdl.handle.net/10347/26655
LA eng
NO Kuźniak, M., González-Díaz, D., Amedo, P. et al. Development of very-thick transparent GEMs with wavelength-shifting capability for noble element TPCs. Eur. Phys. J. C 81, 609 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1140/epjc/s10052-021-09316-0
NO This project was funded by the National Science Centre, Poland (Grant No. 2019/03/X/ST2/01560). The NCAC PAS team acknowledges support from the International Research Agenda Programme AstroCeNT (MAB/2018/7) funded by the Foundation for Polish Science from the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF). DGD acknowledges Ramon y Cajal program (Spain) under contract number RYC-2015-18820. AstroCeNT and TUM cooperation is supported from the EU’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No 962480 (DarkWave project)
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